Making a wall panel with your own hands is a great opportunity not only to make a beautiful original decoration for an apartment, but also to bring an element of home warmth and individuality into the decor. This element of decor is used by designers also to mask defects and surface irregularities, to protect the coating from contamination, as well as to increase visual space. You can use fabrics, leather, paper, photographs, threads, beads, bottle corks, mosaics, fragments of glass, cereals, shells, stones, and much more to make a panel out of scrap materials with your own hands. In this article we will look at some of the original ideas of making such a decor with the provision of their photos. Get inspired with us and boldly grasp the décor of your home.

Panel of seashells do-it-yourself

Resting on the beach, children love to collect various shells scattered on the coast. But when they come home, they often simply do not know what to do with them and how to apply. Placed in small bags, shells and beautiful stones only replenish the contents of cabinets and shelves, where they remain for many years. But they can be an excellent material for creating panels on the wall with their own hands. A large variety of their shapes and colors will help create excellent compositions that will decorate any room, especially if the interior is decorated in a marine style.

Preparing to create a wall panel with your own hands made of shells

A seashell panel will require details such as: seashells, a frame (you can use a photo frame, a board or plywood), glue, acrylic paints (paint, nail polish). Also need material for the background - cloth, burlap, mesh or sand. Depending on the sketch, there may be additional elements - beads, buttons, pebbles, straziki, etc.

First of all, the shells must be processed - washed, dried and sorted by type and size. In order to give them brightness, while leaving the old colors, they can be covered with stain or clear nail polish. Some do-it-yourself panel drawings will require different colors. In this case, the shells can be painted with acrylic paints, or a solution of potassium permanganate can be used as such. The frame can also be processed, for example, painted in blue or white.

Various types of shells can be randomly arranged on a plane, which will look quite attractive, as shown in the photo. And you can create various drawings of the panels with your own hands, for example, a seascape, a ship, a doll, flowers, etc. In this case, it will be necessary to make a preliminary sketch on which you then apply the prepared material.

A shell wall do-it-yourself panel for beginners: photos and basic manufacturing processes

Let's start with the simplest models that even a child can make. For example, the chaotic pattern. To do this, you must initially apply the background fabric or sand with glue and assemble the frame. The background can be painted in any suitable color before gluing materials. Some pictures suggest monotony. In this case, the entire finished composition is painted. Now we start to stick a variety of shells. Additionally, you can decorate the empty space with beads, threads and other available materials.

Pretty beautiful (and we can see this in the photo) looks like a seashell panel in the form of a seascape. Making a similar picture is easy, and for a long time it will remind you of a good rest by the sea.

Complicated options for wall shells made of shells

Panels, like artistic paintings, can have a variety of subjects. For example, a panel of seashells can depict a lush bouquet, which, as seen in the photo, will look very realistic and three-dimensional. For this, it is better to give the seashells with the help of paints various shades. Initially, suitable shells are selected in size, from which buds are formed, and then the middle ones. As the stems, you can use a thick thread or rows of beads.

Sea pebbles can best transform such a picture. In the photo we see how elegant the panel of shells and stones looks.
  If there is a desire to depict any animal in the picture or to create a portrait, it is necessary to take care of a sufficient number of shells of the same size. Below are examples of such works.

Panel on the wall with your own hands from coffee beans

A panel of coffee beans perfectly decorate the interior of the kitchen, making the appropriate decor element. Such pictures can be made out for other premises as well, having picked up the corresponding drawing. These can be images of various cute animals for a child’s room, beautiful hearts for bedrooms, etc. -Pistol), the basis in the form of plywood, boards or photo frames, as well as additional elements: fabric for the background, felt rope, burlap, scissors and a pencil to create a sketch.

Some craftsmen manage to form whole portraits and paintings from coffee beans, but this work already requires some skills, so it’s worth starting with simpler pictures.

Panel do it yourself from buttons

Many housewives probably have whole caskets with various buttons left over from worn-out things. They may lie for years without finding any use for themselves, as unnecessary rubbish, which is a pity to be thrown away. But having applied a little imagination and creativity, you can make a beautiful wall panel with your own hands. For example, using the least popular, green and brown buttons of various shades, you can create a wonderful “money” tree, as shown in the photo. At the same time, from scrap materials, only a board, glue and a pencil are needed to sketch the sketch. All this is available in any household, so the design of such a panel with your own hands will not entail material costs.

Wall panels do it yourself from wood

One of the modern trends in interior design is the use of eco-materials, in particular, wood. In such conditions, a decorative panel made with wood will be the best option for decorating an empty wall. Let's take a look at how to make a panel with your own hands, using tree branches.

All that will be needed is: a sheet of thick cardboard or chipboard, glue (it is better to use hot melt glue that hardens very quickly), a handsaw, varnish and brushes and, of course, branches of different tree species that differ in thickness. For the decoration of the frame, you can use wooden slats or baguette.

The size of the canvas depends only on personal preferences. Before you make a panel, you need to think about what form it will have, dimensions and possible shades.

The frame is originally made. Here you will need an additional tool - miter box, which allows you to cut the workpiece at an angle of 45 degrees. The finished frame is attached to the base with small nails or a stapler. Then we cut the coppers from the branches, and the thickness can be different.

Ready-made blanks are laid out on the canvas in a chaotic manner, starting from the largest and ending with the small ones, which will fill the voids formed. When everything is ready, and the canvas is completely filled, proceed to gluing all the fragments. After that, you need to wait for the glue to dry and apply a layer of varnish. It will serve as an additional decoration, making the picture glossy and, moreover, will create a protective layer from moisture and harmful insects. On this, making a panel with your own hands can be considered complete. The case will remain only for its installation.

Have you ever wondered how you can update the seemingly recently renovated, but already rather boring interior? One of the ways to breathe new life into the room without cardinal alterations, dirt and additional troubles can be considered painting walls and placing colorful images on them. If you have at least one corner, unused in the decor, then hang there wall panel  and the room will sparkle with new colors, and an exclusive pattern will become its central element.

Usually the panels are hung in residential and non-residential premises, in houses, apartments, offices, restaurants. But now we will talk about how to choose a picturesque pattern for the interior of a residential house. Do not even hesitate, in each room there is a place for the artistic appearance of the walls, as well as the image that most accurately fits the meaning and purpose of the room.

Wall panels will be appropriate in any room, starting with the hallway, ending with a kitchen, nursery and even a bathroom. But for each room there are different types of panels, suitable for the characteristics, size and picture shown.

Panel in the interior of the living room

Most often for the living room ordered the production of panels of large sizes, occupying the entire wall or a significant part of it. It can be with or without backlight. Among the images of the most popular are various types of metropolis or calm peaceful landscapes.

Sociable people living in a drive prefer to see active and dynamic pictures of a scurrying crowd, lights of the night city depicted on the wall, or unusual abstractions presented on a leather panel. Such original works are most often ordered for fashionable modern interiors, executed and modern.

People who have found peace of mind, choose and panels for the room, made in soothing shades, without screaming colors and drawings depicted on them. Such wall panel  complement the classic interior and most often they depict a part of the old city, the stairs leading to the Garden of Eden, or the seascape.

Quite interesting is a separate panel, which is located in the corner of the room with the spiral staircase depicted on it. Such a “snag” as it were pushes the boundaries and expands the space. But here the main thing is to correctly arrange two types of panels in the same room so that it does not look like an unnecessary element in the living room.

Wall panels for the kitchen

The kitchen is the place where the panel on the wall will look very good. Panels for the kitchen, as a rule, are chosen from such materials that are easy to clean, because this is the only room in the house that is quickly contaminated from soot and grease. For kitchen manufacturers offer ceramic panels, made of cut tiles. This composition gives the interior individuality and, at the same time, it is easy to maintain.

And in the dining area near the table, you can hang a beautiful panel of cloth or coffee beans - this “picture” is quite appropriate for the purpose of the room. People with exquisite taste can be recommended to add a wall panel, made with elements.

Bathroom Panel

Bathroom has special requirements for the properties of materials, and most important among them is water resistance. Of course, in the bath we will not hang, for example, a panel of wood, it will quickly become useless and its decorative effect will disappear. But the mosaic panel and the best fit for their performance for the bathroom.

Bathroom panels are made of glass mosaic, mosaic, horny fabric and even polished metal.

Beautiful mural for the bedroom

For the bedroom, they choose a classic textile panel in the form of flowers, steps in a flowered garden, a sea shore or a panel imitating a fresco.

But in addition to the classic pictures on the wall, in the bedroom you can use an LED panel that will serve not only as a bright element of the decor, but also can be used as a night lamp. It is easy to program it to include a certain color or a slight flicker in the dark.

Remember that the bedroom is a room for rest, therefore make out its quiet subdued shades, it is not necessary to add here bright colors and powerful lighting effects.

If you stopped on the bright walls in the bedroom, the panel should be lighter, but appropriate in the same palette.

Panel for a nursery

Bright thematic panels depicting cartoon characters, scenes from fairy tales or the child’s favorite characters fit into the children's room.

But also with your child you can make a panel with your own hands and hang up joint creativity in the nursery. To do this, any items will be useful: make a panel of beads, dried flowers, and as a basis, take a thick cardboard, foam, fiberboard.

If a pleasant pastime is crowned with success and a beautiful picture is born, then continue to create masterpieces for other rooms. Believe me, this kind of creativity is great fun and contributes to the development of the child!

If you purchased an apartment or a house, or just want to decorate an apartment after repair, then the question inevitably arises: What to hang on the wall? Here you will find the answer!

Really, wall panelas well as possible decorate your living room, bedroom or kitchen. Here you will find a variety of panels on the wall, made in the form of polyptychs (diptychs, triptychs, etc.). You just have to choose the plot panel. Our wall panels are made on specific orders, and are made using large format printing on canvas. Each part wall panel  stretched on a stretcher.

In this figure you can see an example of a panel on a wall of five parts (P-779). Abstract plot. Very well suited, for example, to decorate the living room, but can be used in other rooms. To fix each part of the panel on the wall, we attach special hooks for free, which are easily mounted on the wall and leave almost no marks on the wall during removal. Convenient and very practical!

How to choose a wall panel

The choice of wall panel entirely depends on the style and interior of the room, as well as on your taste. Our site contains a wide range of panel scenes - from abstraction to children's pictures. According to the catalog in the left part of the page you can choose the necessary subject and a plot suitable for you for the panel. However, if you still did not find the required, and we will pick up and offer you several plots for wall panels that meet your expectations.

Here is another example of a four-part panel. For example, in the bedroom or hallway. Calm plot in soothing colors. By the way, when making an order, we can make any adjustment of the picture by color. Up to turning it into a black and white image!

Order a wall panel and enjoy great scenes!

For the decoration of the house after the repair, recently, very often they began to use a three-dimensional panel, which is great to hang on the wall. The panel on the wall looks very beautiful, but it makes an even better impression when he made it with his own hands.

With the help of the panel you can decorate almost any room. It is great for both the hall and the kitchen.

We make a three-dimensional panel on the wall for comfort in the house and apartment

For the panel can fit almost any materials. The main thing you need to have is an even and clear representation of the final picture. From paper, from plaster, from beads - from all these materials you can get a pretty good result, but the most the volume panel is obtained from the following materials:

  • Clay or salt dough.
  • Flowers
  • Cereals.
  • Wool.
  • Textile

All the above materials are perfect for beginners in the manufacture of panels. For more experienced, we can recommend decorative plaster and plaster putty. It is from them that complex compositions can be obtained The use of these two materials is not recommended for beginners, since this process is very complex and lengthy. However, masters can do wonderful things.

Choose between clay and dough.

From clay and dough are quite beautiful and aesthetic composition of the panel. Both materials perfectly show themselves in this area. But the test has a number of advantages: it is easier to mold and much less dirt from it.

To prepare the dough, take a glass of flour, a glass of fine salt, a spoonful of vegetable oil and a hundred grams of water. All this must be thoroughly mixed to obtain a plastic consistency. Instead of water, you can use vinyl glue.

The essence of the manufacture of clay panels or dough is to mount various shapes made of these materials on a special basis, which must be placed in the frame.

Compositions should be chosen depending on the room that the panel will decorate. Fruits or vegetables, as well as various utensils are perfect for the kitchen. For a normal room, animals are well suited.

The process of modeling panels is not at all more difficult than clay modeling. But do not think that everything can work out the first time, you may have to practice a little before you get a decent result.

After the figurines are molded they must be baked in the oven and painted with watercolors.

We make a panel of flowers and leaves with a description of the work

One of the very beautiful panel options is one that can be made from scrap materials of natural origin: various dried flowers, berries and leaves. It is possible to make such a panel and easier than clay, but here you need to be very careful, since the materials used are very fragile.

First, on dry paper collect the desired composition. So we can see the picture as accurately as possible and, if necessary, correct it. After all adjustments have been made, we can transfer all the items to a textile base. When transferring, it is unforgettable to fasten all the elements with glue. When the glue is dry, you can close the panel with glass and place it in the frame.

Panel of seeds and cereals.

From cereals and seeds you can get a very beautiful version of the panel. There are no restrictions in the form of used seeds and cereals - any will do. Your only limiter is your fantasy.

Panel of cereals and seeds is as follows. First, a sketch of the future composition is drawn on white paper. The picture should be as accurate and precise as possible, try to make each line as visible as possible. Gently cover certain areas with glue and apply cereals on them. Various small parts that could not be done with the help of cereals and seeds can be drawn in hand-made watercolor.

From wool

This wool wall panel is a very original home decoration. With some effort, you can get the exposure, which will resemble watercolor painting. To create such a picture, you need to draw your chosen picture on a separate sheet of white paper. After that, divide the wool into sections and glue. Be sure to place this exposure in the frame.

Several videos on the subject of the article

We hope that this master class was useful for you. Now we invite you to watch some interesting videos, which tells about the production of panels with your own hands.

Hanging the original panel on the wall, you can create a unique and unique interior. Extraordinary decoration will be the pride of the owners of the house and will attract admiring glances of the guests.

This element of the decor is easy to make yourself using a variety of scrap materials.

Expansion for fantasy

There are many ways to create wall decorations in the form of panels. In this creative process is limited only by the imagination of the master and, as a rule, does not require special skills. All that is needed to make a wall panel with your own hands is a good idea, inspiration, necessary materials and time.

The fantasy of decorators is limitless and today not only banal paints are used to create a wall masterpiece, but also:

  • color paper;
  • wire;
  • various fabrics;
  • buttons;
  • satin and rep ribbons;
  • yarn;
  • photo;
  • sea ​​pebbles and shells;
  • colored sand;
  • nails;
  • metal buttons;
  • sparkles;
  • vinyl records;
  • pages of old books, newspapers and magazines.

The image can be flat or three-dimensional, have or not have a frame, consist of one or several parts. At the same time the panel can have a plot or represent an abstract picture.

Modern housewives love to decorate the kitchen wall panels of spices and curly pasta, dried herbs and flowers, wine corks, cutlery, lids from plastic bottles, coffee beans, various cereals and even culinary dough.

Travel lovers will like the decoration of the old geographical maps, magnets, acquired in different countries. You can create a panel for photographs taken on tourist trips, gradually complementing it.

Any decorative panel created by yourself will emphasize the individuality of the owners of the house, demonstrate their creative nature, create a cozy and unique atmosphere. However, before you ask how to make a panel in the room, you should decide on the technique of creating a future masterpiece.

Types of panels do it yourself

The undoubted advantage of creating a panel with their own hands is a variety of techniques for this type of creativity.

The most famous technology will be discussed below.

Drawing

The panel is created in free form or by templates with watercolor, oil paints, gouache, pencils, markers, crayons, charcoal, toothpaste.

Simple sticking or appliqué

Decoration elements are glued to the base with stationery, universal, epoxy glue, PVA glue, “liquid nails”.

Installation

Installation of various three-dimensional parts of the panel, elements of composition and techniques into a single artistic unit.

Decoupage

Technique of decorating the working surface with paper ornament (you can use the top color layer of napkins) and glue with the subsequent application of various finishing coatings.

Quilling

The technique of making compositions from spiral-twisted long and narrow colored strips of paper. Paper modules are twisted with a gypsy needle with a wide eye, after which the end of the strip is fixed with glue, and the modules themselves are given the desired shape. Details are interconnected, forming a picture. Such a panel can have a base, or immediately mounted on the wall.

Embroidery

Embroidery of pictures with a cross, beads, yarn, ribbons. The panel can combine smooth embroidery and decoration (buttons, zippers, volumetric embroidered elements). In this case, as the basis is used burlap, flax, rolled cotton or plastic canvas.

Patchwork

Sewing technique from patches of fabric of different textures and colors. The fabric cloth is glued to the base or stretched on a wooden frame.

An original decoration of the interior can be a frame composition (threads of colored yarn are wound on thin nails, half hammered into a wooden base), a mirror, tiled panel (mosaic of pieces of mirror and tile), a panel for photographs in combination with unusual decorative elements (sea pebbles, gramophone plates).

Tools and basic rules

For the manufacture of decorative panels with your own hands, you can use a variety of materials. However, before starting work, you should take care not only of the main details, stencils and templates, but also the tools that are useful for creativity.

Tools and materials that you may need to make a panel with your own hands:

  • basis (cork, chipboard, cardboard, plywood, various fabrics, plexiglas, leather, plastic, foam plastic);
  • universal glue or "liquid nails";
  • scissors;
  • simple pencil;
  • brushes;
  • sponges;
  • double-sided and regular scotch;
  • mounts for panels;
  • hammer;
  • stationery knife.

If you plan to work with a tree, you may need:

  • jigsaw;
  • stain;
  • sandpaper.

The most advantageous wall panel looks on the walls of a contrasting color, when there is a lot of free space around. Decorators do not recommend hanging additional decorations on the wall where the panel is fixed.

Basic placement rules:

  1. The optimum height of the composition is 1.5-1.7 m.
  2. Daylight and artificial light should fall directly on the composition.

Care for the wall decoration should be carefully, brushing dust from all the elements every day. In case of heavy contamination, the panel should be treated with dry cleaning products.

Focus on topics

Whatever improvised materials the panel was made of, it should fit perfectly into the interior style.

The idea to hang photos of bright family moments in the bedroom on the wall is good, but it is much more interesting to create a collage of them. Such a panel for photographs can be resized, decorated with memorable things, inscriptions, prints of children's palms. It is appropriate in the bedroom and panels of fabric made in the technique of hot or cold batik.

The bright panel, made in the technique of quilling, will be an excellent complement to the interior of the children's room, and the composition, which includes "edible" details - in the kitchen and dining room. Mosaic looks good in the bathroom, and the classic pattern - in the living room.

Each of us is an artist, but not everyone knows about it. Create a panel with your own hands - a great way to unleash your creativity, please your family and diversify your home interior. Dare!

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